Finding Medina: The Battle of Rosillo

An 1837 Stephen F. Austin map showing the location of the Battle of Medina.

In February of 1813, Spanish Royalist forces under Texas Gov. Manuel Salcedo stormed the Republicans besieged in Goliad – and were resoundingly repulsed. The Republicans broke out of Goliad and pursued the Royalists all the way back to San Antonio, where Salcedo and José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara met in one final battle.

We finally lay our hands on maps from the early 1800s that might tell us where contemporaries believed that the Battle of Medina took place.

Brandon Seale is the president of Howard Energy México. With degrees in philosophy, law, and business, he writes and records stories about the residents of the borderland and about the intersection of Texas and Mexican cultures, which are far more alike than they are different.